Is IRC a dead cyberpunk meme or do any of you actually use it?

Is IRC a dead cyberpunk meme or do any of you actually use it?

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lol use discord, stop being such a loser

Fuck off

Used almost it every day since june of '95

It is, and always has been, where it needs to be. Normies and avoid it and flock to Slack / Discord instead.

I use it to talk to my gf, but other than that no

Using irc in this day and age is like trying to do something productive with Windows 95. Needlessly convoluted and outdated wankfest

also good for file sharing

to talk with who ?

I use it for FOSS related things only

zillions of people

what GUI irc client do you use?
terminalets need not apply

I used to use HexChat

hexchat

Convos

It's useful if you want to talk directly to developers.

go back to Sup Forums you baby normie fuck

Discord has video chat and screensharing now. It's going to be hard for me to go back.

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Pidgin. Looks like ass but just works

But why?

I still use it for l33t hacking memes
But yeah I'm a cyberpunk and it's mostly meme.

isn't discord centralized?

I use a webirc client, kiwiirc. Over 1000 users in #javascript at any time of the day. Where else can you go and get help immediatly when you're stuck debugging something or google fail to solve your problem?

What do you mean why?

The 2 most active IRC groups I were apart of moved to Discord and Telegram. Now I'm just in channels full of idlers and only a few people that regularly talk.

normies don't need irc
what's productive about chatting to people
this, gotta love #news

It is, and they collect all your data including voice and text logs, and have reserved the rights to use it for whatever they want.

And that's discord's fault?

yea i agree

for personal comunication i use tox

I meant how'd you convince your girlfriend to switch over to IRC? Most normies stick to skype, fb and whatsapp

He didn't say it was, Shlomo

>I meant how'd you convince your girlfriend to switch over to IRC? Most normies stick to skype, fb and whatsapp
she isnt a normie. i met her through pol. you retards convinced her to run linux on a thumbdrive when her windows install broke before i met her. she has win7 now and refuses to run win10 because of your retarded botnet memes.

Rizon died last year, so now I have no hang out with the dweebs on freenode

I used it til 2010, then had a few life changes and between one thing and another I didn't feel like getting into different channels or networks.

But I do miss that shit. I miss it so fucking much. If only I knew of good networks.

>i met her through pol
So you're another imageboard poon predator?

yes

make sure she doesn't stab you in your sleep because someone convinced her that you're a cia nigger

Yeah, I'm active on #c++-general, #cplusplus.com, #d, #rust-beginners and #nim(rarely)

What is a good irc channel that is good for talking to developers? I remember going to a channel in install gentoo somewhere and they were huge incredible assholes and literally owned by an admin that would ban people on sight.

I wonder why I liked mIRC so much. They convinced me like 30 billion times to switch to X-Chat but I just didn't want to.

polari

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>What is a good irc channel that is good for talking to developers?

Just go straight to the IRC for whatever project you want to talk to the developers of. For example, if you want to talk to the developers of Weechat then go to #weechat.

Devs usually use IRC to talk to eachother.

>I remember going to a channel in install gentoo somewhere and they were huge incredible assholes
We usually are assholes tho

why isnt there any good looking irc clients???

>I remember going to a channel in install gentoo somewhere and they were huge incredible assholes
>We usually are assholes tho
Not on this level. Guy was literally banning people because some guy said he liked gnome and unity.

>Not on this level. Guy was literally banning people because some guy said he liked gnome and unity.
Sounds like an idiot. Unity is good... Too bad it's dead.

are you 100% sure you're not getting catfished?

I use it to ask questions about computer stuff all the time.

But extracting answers from the IRC sages is itself worthy of a book.

mIRC

i even bought a license

It's the last bastion against normalfags

>Rizon died last year
Wait, what happened?

Nah I use IRC. It's still a pretty good service, even for 2017. Discord is trying to be Skype and I hate it, so I'm going to continue using IRC

it's still alive, but on life support. pretty much everyone left.

I've been in a serious relationship with her for a year and a half. She spent the night at my place Wednesday and is again tonight. This isnt some "internet girlfriend" or something cringey like that.

hm, I haven't been on it in a while. Only really used it for #NEWS and lurking in #eden. Liked to have talked to people but I guess that ship has sailed, Other than #chat, I wouldn't have known where to go other than for niche interest channels

I've been hanging out in the same channels for like a decade. IRC will outlive you.

I only use it when I want something. People who legit use it as a social interaction platform are depressing to even think about.

I would use IRC, but aside from Sup Forums I only ever talk with friends I already know online

>join channel
>x has joined the channel
S O D I F F I C U L T

I use discord instead
/thread

The problem is for non-technology topics, or development, there aren't that many channels. So you want something well populated to talk about other subjects and it's just fucking dead.

>using unencrypted protocols to discuss nothing
>doesnt keep a good backlog unless connected
>reveals IP unless configured not to or dumb text commands
>swarmed by government watchers
good luck trying to prove that its better
(discord is worse btw)

still have my znc running but i barely open it anymore.
Its not dead but i do feel like it has slowed down in recent years, its probably more active in project communities though

>>using unencrypted protocols to discuss nothing
what is ssl
>>doesnt keep a good backlog unless connected
what is znc/bnc
>>reveals IP unless configured not to or dumb text commands
what is znc/bnc/vHost/proxy/vpn
>>swarmed by government watchers
and Sup Forums isnt? protip if you believe Sup Forums hides your IP from goverment agencies you're very retarded

ah the good old days when the darknet was full of pedos and you didnt knew if the mp3 you downloaded was a child porn video or the actual mp3..

Been on IRC since 2006 and am still using it. Skype, Slack, Discord and whatever shitty botnet chats people use these day can fuck right off.

the entire point of mIRC is to be babby's first software patch

> I need a gaming label on my software to enjoy it
Bet you have a Razer tattoo or something.

>Is IRC a dead cyberpunk meme
Yes
>or do any of you actually use it?
Yes

who else /biboumi/ here?

must be a meme, i'm not in there every day

>Millennial normalfag: the post
Go die.

rightly so
gnome and unity what a retard

I miss IRC....

>he really thinks the file is bigger because it has better quality
>steganographed cp is in all files, ready to be discovered by a three letter agency whenever convenient

fpbp

It still exists....just no one uses it because it sucks ass.

>fpbp
Get out

...

Hookd

it's actually really useful for piracy and communicating w/ other devs. some friends of mine are also still on there.
(You)

I use irc
come visit me at #homescreen on rizon

Get out

Don't do this it's a virus

Slack makes more sense these days

>pass user
what the fuck? is Sup Forums promoting Pass users now?

newfag

I occasionally visit #bookz to get reading materials.

#bookz on undernet
#ebooks on irchighway
Hexchat

it's still kicking, i use it pretty often.

irc.sinsira.net #lobby

I'm not only still using IRC, I'm using Microsoft Comic Chat.

It's a pile of unending furfags.
Which is exactly why i use it.

its unencrypted and deanonymized

At the least suggest Mumble you proprietary shilling sellout.

isn't hard at all to use ssl and a bouncer

Pretty much all modern irc servers offer support to SSLv3 and some actually demand it.

faggots like you are the reason it got big fast and that it will soon be forgotten.

IRC is largely supplanted by discord and other similar applications.

i still use it for private tracker IRCs though, one of the few niches where it makes sense.

How much do they pay you to shill that spyware?

only normies think irc is dead

All day errday. Is the last place were communities thrive.

this

> IRC is largely supplanted by ...
can't imagine why anyone would want to talk to newfags who weren't already on IRC

Is BitchX safe? I don't feel like combing through all the code looking for the 1337 1rC r00tk1t

what servers/channels do you usually visit?